retribuir — meaning in English
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English meaning
- reciprocate verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
Senses
retribuir is used for these senses in English:
- pay back (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.
- reciprocate (transitive) To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
- retribute To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite.
reciprocate — full definition
- verb To respond to an action or feeling with a similar one in return.
- verb Of machinery, to move back and forth repeatedly, like a piston.